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Hellebore heaven

DESPITE broad hints, no one gave me The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores (David & Charles, pounds 16.99) for Christmas. Not a single copy. This is my excuse to go out and buy it. Like many another gardening book today, it has been written by two people. Graham Rice already has many books to his name, and his co-author, Elizabeth Strangman, is the owner of Washfield Nursery at Hawkhurst in Kent.

The book is splendidly illustrated, and includes many close-ups of the flowers themselves. It is aimed more at gardeners than botanists, so if your taste is for the wild species, then you may prefer the more academic Hellebores by Brian Mathew. The scholarship comes at twice the ...

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